My project contains about 100 calls to url() with regex. Can you explain to me what has been changed and why, and how should I change my code to stop using url()? And where is it documented? I checked the documentation and I didn't find an explanation why url() was changed and what are the differences between url() and path() and re_path()? אורי u...@speedy.net
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 6:42 PM Collin Anderson <cmawebs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Are we _sure_ we want to completely get rid of url()? > > Yesterday, url() was given a RemovedInDjango40Warning [PR]. The removal > was approved as part of the new path() syntax back in 2017 [DEP 0201]. > > Is this really worth it? It's only a *few lines of code* to keep backward > compatibility, and it seems to me it would take *almost no work to > maintain* that compatibility shim compared to the countless programmer > hours needed to upgrade their code, including many unpaid programmers > working on open source projects. I'll personally need to do a find/replace > for url() to re_path() across my ~20 projects, and update all of the > imports. Isn't this *useless code churn*? > > Yes, there's an advantage to having one and only one way to do it, so I > agree we should encourage people to use re_path() instead of url(), but > shouldn't we also make it *as easy as possible to upgrade django*? Is > getting rid of url() really worth the cost? > > Yes, the removal is still ~3+ years away, but that's a question of _when_ > not _if_. > > If we want, we _could_ deprecate url() without giving it an actual removal > date [Compatibility Discussion] and leave the compatibility shim around > longer, if not indefinitely. > > Thanks, > Collin > > > [PR] https://github.com/django/django/pull/12855 > > [DEP 0201] > https://github.com/django/deps/blob/master/final/0201-simplified-routing-syntax.rst > > [Compatibility Discussion] > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/asqnjcYPnms/discussion > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/17899c17-2c07-4a80-baa5-e0a348d9512c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/17899c17-2c07-4a80-baa5-e0a348d9512c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CABD5YeF59%3DRvoSGiuM_9WkXxCFosz5d3-4rgW5eSa3aEXDeuKg%40mail.gmail.com.
